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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Najib Razak, 69, is Malaysia’s first former prime minister to go to prison -- a mighty fall for a veteran British-educated politician whose father and uncle were the country’s second and third prime ministers, respectively.The enormous 1MDB financial scandal tied directly to him was not just a personal blow but…

The car bomb that killed hardline TV commentator Daria Dugina near Moscow was the work of a Ukrainian woman who fled to Estonia after the blast, state-run Russian news agencies reported Monday."The crime was prepared and committed by the Ukrainian special services," Tass said in a Telegram post Monday.Ukraine authorities have vehemently denied…

Liz Cheney says it would be ‘very difficult’ to support Ted Cruz or Josh Hawley Donald Trump began his Sunday lashing out at the Democratic Party for the “politically motivated raid on Mar-a-Lago” by the FBI, claiming it was because they fear him most as a candidate in the 2024 election.The former president also griped at the media attention…

Comment on this storyCommentThe front-runner for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination is Donald Trump. But he may no longer be the most likely nominee.For as long as we’ve been doing our quarterly rankings of the Republicans most likely to be the party’s nominee in 2024, No. 1 has been an easy pick. Trump still commands extensive loyalty in the…

“He’s not, in my opinion, mentally stable,” Hogan said Wednesday on WGMD radio, based on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. “He wanted to hang my friend, Mike Pence, and took three busloads of people to the Capitol.”Cox, a Republican delegate from Frederick, handily defeated Hogan-endorsed candidate Kelly Schulz last month in a primary largely viewed as…

It’s back-to-school time. Students and teachers are already in classrooms across Utah and excitement is in the air. Yet anxiety is also in the air. Some are calling it a crisis in the classroom. COVID-19 exacerbated the perennial problems of long hours, low pay and increased teacher workloads. Together these…

Giuliani declined to comment to CNN on his way into the Superior Court of Fulton County just before 8:30 a.m. ET.The indication that he is a target of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' probe marked an escalation of the investigation and raises questions about Trump's criminal exposure in the probe. Willis' office has also informed 16…

“After testing negative for COVID-19 on Monday during her regular testing cadence, the First Lady began to develop cold-like symptoms late in the evening,” her spokeswoman Elizabeth Alexander said in a statement. “She tested negative again on a rapid antigen test, but a PCR test came back positive.”Alexander noted that Jill Biden, 71, is…

“There was a complete lack and a failure to plan,” Rep. Michael McCaul (Tex.), the committee’s top Republican, told CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “There was no plan, and there was no plan executed.”The White House has responded by circulating a memo seeking to discredit the report.“This partisan report is riddled with inaccurate…

The billboards around town may say “Sarah for Alaska” – but as far as resident David Gober can tell, Sarah Palin “is all for Palin”.At a coffee shop not far from Palin’s campaign headquarters in Anchorage, Gober, his wife Zelda Marie and a few friends meet up regularly to affably dissect their politics and golf games. The group – like many…